Non-standard Music

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This is a thread for one-offs and out-there recordings or performances that don't fit the usual mold of this site.

This first video is a beautiful and mesmerizing example of the "alaap" technique of northern India and Pakistan. Improvised melodies and phrases along with a percussive string instrument called the santoor, melded into a traditional modality characteristic of the music in the region. 

The singer is Paulina Magus
The santoor is played by Dmitry Soul

[Alexendra Kay]

Discovered this up-and-coming country artist recently and this song, Everleave, really shows off her talent.

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If you're into Siberian indigenous folk-pop, this band slaps. They're called Otyken (pronounced Oh-too-kyen). There's a lot going on with traditional instruments, throat singing, beautiful costumes (and singer). It will sound like noise to some, but it is a modern take on Siberian indigenous music. Other songs they do incorporate more rock sounds, but this one is closer to the root. 

They've been around for years and have a worldwide following, but due to sanctions on Russia they're not allowed to perform in the U.S. 

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This band is called Hielung ("Peace" in English). Many reaction channels have featured this band. It is hard to classify them, but the genres listed in Wikipedia are Fold, Neofolk, Ethnic music, Industrial. Excerpts of Wikipedia:

Heilung is an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age, and Viking Age. Heilung describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe". Their music is usually about Germanic deities, the Jǫtnar, and valkyries. "Heilung" is a German noun meaning "healing" in English.
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As instruments, items are used that may have been already available to humans in the Iron Age, such as drums, bones or spears. According to an August 2018 interview, the instruments they use consist of:

drums, including one with horse skin painted with human blood, two drums with deerskin and a drum with goatskin
bones, including a human forearm bone and deer bones
a buffalo horn rattle
a clay rattle with human ashes
a Hindu ritual bell
antiques from temples
a reconstructed silver cup from the Viking age
a ravanahatha (an ancient instrument used in India, Sri Lanka and surrounding areas, originating from Hela People, then brought to North India by Hanuman, then to India)
other rattles, whistles, and percussive instruments
Faust's throat singing recalls the Tibetan or Mongolian style. Juul uses a chirping whisper as vocals.

Elaborately designed costumes are worn by the band members on stage. These are partly based on the "spiritual traditions of the Eurasian circumpolar peoples", or are historically correct reproductions of Nordic Bronze Age clothing.

Heilung - Naurpo (Official Music Video)